O'Reilly on Data

JANUARY 21, 2025

The Evolution of Expectations For years, the AI world was driven by scaling laws : the empirical observation that larger models and bigger datasets led to proportionally better performance. This fueled a belief that simply making models bigger would solve deeper issues like accuracy, understanding, and reasoning.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

We actually started our AI journey using agents almost right out of the gate, says Gary Kotovets, chief data and analytics officer at Dun & Bradstreet. In addition, because they require access to multiple data sources, there are data integration hurdles and added complexities of ensuring security and compliance.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Re-platforming to reduce friction Marsh McLennan had been running several strategic data centers globally, with some workloads on the cloud that had sprung up organically. Several co-location centers host the remainder of the firm’s workloads, and Marsh McLennans big data centers will go away once all the workloads are moved, Beswick says.

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O'Reilly on Data

MARCH 25, 2025

Weve seen this across dozens of companies, and the teams that break out of this trap all adopt some version of Evaluation-Driven Development (EDD), where testing, monitoring, and evaluation drive every decision from the start. Two big things: They bring the messiness of the real world into your system through unstructured data.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 25, 2025

These areas are considerable issues, but what about data, security, culture, and addressing areas where past shortcuts are fast becoming todays liabilities? Types of data debt include dark data, duplicate records, and data that hasnt been integrated with master data sources.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Re-platforming to reduce friction Marsh McLellan had been running several strategic data centers globally, with some workloads on the cloud that had sprung up organically. Several co-location centers host the remainder of the firm’s workloads, and Marsh McLellan’s big data centers will go away once all the workloads are moved, Beswick says.

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Analytics Vidhya

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon. It is a data-driven approach to learning that can automatically extract features from data and build models to make predictions. Introduction Deep learning is a branch of machine learning inspired by the brain’s ability to learn.

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datapine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

1) What Is Data Quality Management? 4) Data Quality Best Practices. 5) How Do You Measure Data Quality? 6) Data Quality Metrics Examples. 7) Data Quality Control: Use Case. 8) The Consequences Of Bad Data Quality. 9) 3 Sources Of Low-Quality Data. 10) Data Quality Solutions: Key Attributes.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 4, 2025

The challenge, however, will be compounded when multiple agents are involved in a workflow that is likely to change and evolve as different data inputs are encountered, given that these AI agents learn and adjust as they make decisions. Its an emerging field, says Tom Coshow, senior director analyst of AI at Gartner.

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datapine

JANUARY 24, 2021

In our cutthroat digital age, the importance of setting the right data analysis questions can define the overall success of a business. That being said, it seems like we’re in the midst of a data analysis crisis. That being said, it seems like we’re in the midst of a data analysis crisis.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

From customer service chatbots to marketing teams analyzing call center data, the majority of enterprises—about 90% according to recent data —have begun exploring AI. For companies investing in data science, realizing the return on these investments requires embedding AI deeply into business processes.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 8, 2025

Data is the foundation of innovation, agility and competitive advantage in todays digital economy. As technology and business leaders, your strategic initiatives, from AI-powered decision-making to predictive insights and personalized experiences, are all fueled by data. Data quality is no longer a back-office concern.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 3, 2025

At the same time, the scale of observability data generated from multiple tools exceeds human capacity to manage. Observability builds on the growth of sophisticated IT monitoring tools, starting with the premise that the operational state of every network node should be understandable from its data outputs.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 7, 2025

Organizations will always be transforming , whether driven by growth opportunities, a pandemic forcing remote work, a recession prioritizing automation efficiencies, and now how agentic AI is transforming the future of work.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 19, 2024

So far, no agreement exists on how pricing models will ultimately shake out, but CIOs need to be aware that certain pricing models will be better suited to their specific use cases. Lots of pricing models to consider The per-conversation model is just one of several pricing ideas.

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Analytics Vidhya

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

RLHF for high performance focuses on understanding human behavior, cognition, context, knowledge, and interaction by leveraging computational models and data-driven approaches […] The post RLHF For High-Performance Decision-Making: Strategies and Optimization appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

JANUARY 15, 2025

One of the points that I look at is whether and to what extent the software provider offers out-of-the-box external data useful for forecasting, planning, analysis and evaluation. Until recently, it was adequate for organizations to regard external data as a nice to have item, but that is no longer the case.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Moreover, in the near term, 71% say they are already using AI-driven insights to assist with their mainframe modernization efforts. Many Kyndryl customers seem to be thinking about how to merge the mission-critical data on their mainframes with AI tools, she says. I believe you’re going to see both.”

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Cloudera

JANUARY 7, 2025

For a smaller airport in Canada, data has grown to be its North Star in an industry full of surprises. In order for data to bring true value to operationsand ultimately customer experiencesthose data insights must be grounded in trust. Data needs to be an asset and not a commodity. What’s the reason for data?

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Data is the lifeblood of the modern insurance business. Yet, despite the huge role it plays and the massive amount of data that is collected each day, most insurers struggle when it comes to accessing, analyzing, and driving business decisions from that data. There are lots of reasons for this.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Still, CIOs have reason to drive AI capabilities and employee adoption, as only 16% of companies are reinvention ready with fully modernized data foundations and end-to-end platform integration to support automation across most business processes, according to Accenture. Gen AI holds the potential to facilitate that.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Noting that companies pursued bold experiments in 2024 driven by generative AI and other emerging technologies, the research and advisory firm predicts a pivot to realizing value. Forrester predicts a reset is looming despite the enthusiasm for AI-driven transformations.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 21, 2025

Whereas robotic process automation (RPA) aims to automate tasks and improve process orchestration, AI agents backed by the companys proprietary data may rewire workflows, scale operations, and improve contextually specific decision-making.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Uber no longer offers just rides and deliveries: It’s created a new division hiring out gig workers to help enterprises with some of their AI model development work. Data labeling in particular is a growing market, as companies rely on humans to check out data used to train AI models.

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Analytics Vidhya

MARCH 23, 2023

The recent incident of ChatGPT, an advanced AI language model by OpenAI, inadvertently leaking user chat titles has raised concerns about user privacy and data protection in AI-driven platforms.

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

I previously explained that data observability software has become a critical component of data-driven decision-making. Data observability addresses one of the most significant impediments to generating value from data by providing an environment for monitoring the quality and reliability of data on a continual basis.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 19, 2025

Meanwhile, in December, OpenAIs new O3 model, an agentic model not yet available to the public, scored 72% on the same test. The next evolution of AI has arrived, and its agentic. The technology is relatively new, but all the major players are already on board. So its not just about the use case, but about having the guardrails.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 23, 2024

To address this, Gartner has recommended treating AI-driven productivity like a portfolio — balancing operational improvements with high-reward, game-changing initiatives that reshape business models. Gartner’s data revealed that 90% of CIOs cite out-of-control costs as a major barrier to achieving AI success. “You

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datapine

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Data exploded and became big. Spreadsheets finally took a backseat to actionable and insightful data visualizations and interactive business dashboards. The rise of self-service analytics democratized the data product chain. 1) Data Quality Management (DQM). We all gained access to the cloud.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Schumacher and others believe AI can help companies make data-driven decisions by automating key parts of the strategic planning process. This process involves connecting AI models with observable actions, leveraging data subsequently fed back into the system to complete the feedback loop,” Schumacher said.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

As someone deeply involved in shaping data strategy, governance and analytics for organizations, Im constantly working on everything from defining data vision to building high-performing data teams. My work centers around enabling businesses to leverage data for better decision-making and driving impactful change.

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O'Reilly on Data

JUNE 11, 2024

It would have been very difficult to develop the expertise to build and train a model, and much more effective to work with a company that already has that expertise. Think about how the answers to those questions affect your business model. We’re also using it to build new kinds of learning experiences.

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BizAcuity

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

In today’s data-rich environment, the challenge isn’t just collecting data but transforming it into actionable insights that drive strategic decisions. For organizations, this means adopting a data-driven approach—one that replaces gut instinct with factual evidence and predictive insights. What is BI Consulting?

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O'Reilly on Data

DECEMBER 10, 2019

We can collect many examples of what we want the program to do and what not to do (examples of correct and incorrect behavior), label them appropriately, and train a model to perform correctly on new inputs. Nor are building data pipelines and deploying ML systems well understood. Instead, we can program by example. and Matroid.

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O'Reilly on Data

MARCH 24, 2020

In a world focused on buzzword-driven models and algorithms, you’d be forgiven for forgetting about the unreasonable importance of data preparation and quality: your models are only as good as the data you feed them. Why is high-quality and accessible data foundational?

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